Private equity firms bought a profitable toy company, loaded it with debt, collected fees for a decade, and then watched 33,000 people lose their jobs. They did not lose a dime. That is not a bug in the system. That is the system.
After 26 years of screaming about the road to serfdom, I’ve got to be honest with you: the people selling you security are the same ones building your cage. And it’s not just one party doing it.
One hundred Americans hold more wealth than 170 million of their fellow citizens, and the tax code is the reason why. This is not an accident. This is policy, and it was bought and paid for.
Ohio just handed tech giants a $1.5 billion sales tax exemption while your neighborhood restaurant paid every penny on its equipment. This is not economic development. This is legalized favoritism dressed up in a press release.
Wall Street has a dirty little secret: the loudest, most confident manager pitching you right now is statistically the most likely to blow up your portfolio. I have seen it happen hundreds of times, and the industry keeps letting it happen because it is profitable for everyone except you.
Washington is dangling another big check promise in front of you, and the establishment media is letting them get away with it. I ran the numbers so you don’t have to, and the whole thing is financial fiction.
Scott Bessent announced $6 billion in treasury purchases and basically told the bond market he was the new boss. The bond market responded by doing exactly what it wanted anyway.
Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the outrage industry is more profitable than ever and the people cashing in are not who you think. I am calling for a reset, and I am going to name exactly who benefits from keeping you divided.
Republicans spent years screaming about socialism, and now JD Vance wants to redirect a federal childcare fund to cut checks to stay-at-home moms. I am not making this up, and I am not okay with it.
There was a depression in 1921 that crashed harder than anything we have seen in decades, and the government fixed it by doing almost nothing. That story does not get told because it destroys the justification for every bailout, stimulus package, and emergency program Washington has sold you since.